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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari shake hands as Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, looks on during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Medvedev on Wednesday offered Pakistan support in dealing with catastrophic floods as he hosted leaders of Afghan, Pakistan and Tajikistan for talks on efforts to stabilize the region. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)
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People wait for an army boat near a railway track damaged by floodwaters in Sultan Kot, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani said reconstruction and rehabilitation will be a "big test" for Pakistan once floodwaters recede. Photographer: Asad Zaidi/Bloomberg
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President Obama poses with residents of Columbus, Ohio, who participated in a backyard town-hall-style meeting on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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** FILE ** Two unidentified German aid workers who were kidnapped five weeks earlier in Sudan's Darfur region arrive at the airport in Khartoum, Sudan, on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The two men, who worked for the Technisches Hilfswerk, or THW, a German state agency that does development work, were released without force with the help of Sudanese security forces and are in good health, officials said. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)
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Protesters display placards and shout slogans during a rally outside the Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila, Philippines, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, to call on the Philippine Government to "publicly support" a United Nations commission of inquiry into purported crimes against humanity in Burma. On Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, the United States said it will support the commission. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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An Israel border police officer stands guard as a paramedic rushes from the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages at the embassy after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, left, listens to his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence near Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Dmitry Astakhov, Presidential Press Service)
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Republican senatorial candidate Dino Rossi talks to supporters and reporters as his wife, Terry (right), and their children, (from second from left) Juliauna, Jake, Joseph and Jillian, look on, on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010, in Bellevue, Wash., on Washington state's primary election day. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Former president and UN special envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, right, speaks with people who were displaced by the Jan. earthquake as he visits people who live in the Petionville Golf Club that is being used as a camp for the displaced in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Oct. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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"The best thing we can do in Washington is really just to calm down, to quit making sweeping changes," Sen. Bob Corker said. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama speaks at a fundraising event in Seattle, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010.
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Syrian first lady Asma Assad (left) contacted the Turkish prime minister's wife, Emine Erdogan, to finalize the transfer. Officials say this act of kindness will improve relations between the neighboring countries. (Associated Press)
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President Obama stands with Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat, during a fundraiser Tuesday in Seattle.
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In this undated photo, originally posted on a Facebook page belonging to Eden Aberjil, and taken from the Israeli blog site sachim.tumblr.com, an Israeli army soldier poses in front of blindfolded men identified in the Israeli new media as Palestinian prisoners. Israeli news media and bloggers have identified the soldier in the photos as Aberjil. (AP Photo/sachim.tumblr.com)
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A Palestinian man identified by a Turkish news agency as Nadim Injaz stands in the window of the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Eli Dassa)
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Israeli police officers are seen in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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An Israel border police officer holds his weapon as a paramedic rushes put of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo / Ariel Schalit)
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Israeli Police officers are seen in front of the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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A Palestinian man identified by a Turkish news agency as Nadim Injaz stands in the window of the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. A Palestinian took hostages in the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv Tuesday after shots were fired outside, Israeli police and a Foreign Ministry official said, in an incident that appeared to have only an indirect link to recent tensions between the two countries. (AP Photo/Eli Dassa)
